Professor Doug Jones AM
FCIArb FIAMA FACICA
President

Professor Doug Jones AM is one of the leading arbitrators in the Asia-Pacific region. He is a Sydney-based partner in the Australian law firm of Clayton Utz where he heads the International Arbitration and Major Projects Groups of the firm.  Doug is a door tenant at Atkin Chambers, London. 

His experience includes acting as Arbitrator and Counsel in major international Arbitrations, and advising on major projects in the areas of buildings, road and rail infrastructure, power, potable and waste water, mining infrastructure and processing, and on and offshore oil and gas. He has had extensive experience in PPP and PFI projects.  Details of his experience can be found at www.dougjones.info.

He is currently Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (President Elect 2011), a foundation fellow and graded arbitrator of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, President, Dispute Review Board Foundation Australia and a member of a number of panels of International Arbitral bodies.

In January 1999 Doug was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his services to construction law and dispute resolution.

Doug is ranked Tier 1 - Most in Demand Arbitrator in Chambers Asia 2009, he is ranked (sole) Leading Lawyer in Australia in PLC Which Lawyer 2009/2010, and noted in Chambers Asia 2008 as “a leading light for Asia-Pacific arbitration work.”.  He is named in The International Who's Who of Construction Lawyers 2008 as one of the Most Highly Regarded Individuals - Global.  He is the only Australian lawyer nominated in the prestigious global list of the top nine lawyers.

Alex Baykitch
Partner

Alex's expertise is in the area of international commercial arbitration and complex cross border disputes. In Chambers 2009 Alex was singled out for his "stellar representation of clients in domestic and international arbitrations" arising from oil and gas, commodities and shipping related commercial disputes. His clients include banks and their underwriters, oil and gas corporations, mining and resources companies, as well as commodity traders, insurers and shipowners.

Described by Chambers 2008 as "fast rising and energetic …….. who has developed into one of Australia's strongest arbitration counsel", he has extensive experience of conducting arbitrations in the UK, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia. Alex also sits as sole and party appointed arbitrator, as well as chairman of arbitral tribunals. He is a member of the panel of arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the China Maritime Arbitration Commission.

Alex also has long experience of conducting successful litigation in the Supreme, Federal and High Courts of Australia as well as expert determinations, references, mediations and other alternative forms of dispute resolution.

Contact Details

Office: +61 (0)2 9320 4600
Email:alex.baykitch@hfw.com

David Fairlie
Director of Arbitration

David Fairlie is a former senior partner in the Sydney office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques where he worked in the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice. In 2009 he was appointed General Counsel for Competitive Foods Australia Pty Limited.

David has practiced principally in the area of banking litigation. He has acted for many of the major banks and financial institutions in Australia. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution - both in managing large Court cases and arbitrations, domestic and international, and in achieving negotiated solutions through the use of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution techniques.

David has handled the dispute work for a number of mining and resources companies, including product liability claims and insurance disputes.

David also specialises in World Trade Organisation matters including anti-dumping disputes and has provided advice to clients on their WTO obligations.

He is a NADRAC accredited mediator and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), and practices as a mediator and an arbitrator.
In 1994, David was President of the Law Society of New South Wales, and remains actively involved in issues concerning the legal profession. He also has a part-time role as Director of Arbitration at ACICA.

Ian Govey
Vice President

Ian Govey is Deputy Secretary, Civil Justice and Legal Services, in the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department. His areas of responsibility cover federal civil dispute resolution, including arbitration, federal courts and tribunals, as well as international trade law and Commonwealth legal services. He is also the Department's representative on the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council and the International Legal Services Advisory Council.

Peter Megens
Vice President

Peter Megens is a Partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques where he specialises in construction, dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation, energy and natural resources, infrastructure and projects. Peter is a Chartered Arbitrator, Nationally Accredited Mediator, past Chapter Chairman and Councillor of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, and Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australian Chapter). Peter is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, a Member of the Building Disputes Practitioners' Society and Deputy Chair of the Law Council of Australia Construction & Infrastructure Law Sub-committee, Victoria. Peter practises in all Australian jurisdictions, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific generally

Professor Michael Pryles
Immediate Past President

Michael Pryles is a well known full time international arbitrator with offices in Melbourne, Singapore and London. He is the immediate past president of ACICA and served as president for some 13 years. Currently he is Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre and a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. Formerly he was a court member of the London Court of International Arbitration and the International Chamber of Commerce. He is a frequent speaker on international arbitration and is the author of some 10 books on international arbitration, Conflict of Laws and International Trade Law. Further information can be found at www.michaelpryles.com.

James Neill Creer
CHARTERED ARBITRATOR
FCIArb FIAMA FAIJA
Director

James Creer works full-time as a chartered arbitrator and a commercial mediator and adjudicator. He was formerly practising as a solicitor after retirement from his firm Abbott Tout Creer & Wilkinson where he had been the senior partner for 28 years.

During the past 17 years he has been appointed sole arbitrator in a substantial number of domestic arbitrations. The appointments have emanated from arbitral institutions, the Courts, the Law Society and leading Australian law firms.

In the past nine years he has had four international institutional appointments. He is involved in commercial contracts of a wide variety including franchise, insurance, intellectual property, international trade contracts, mineral resources, partnership, real property, trade practices/competition law and trusts.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the American Arbitration Association (International Centre for Dispute Resolution)

Professor Richard Garnett
Director

Richard Garnett is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. He has published books and articles in the fields of international arbitration, electronic commerce and private international law and is a consultant to industry and the legal profession.

Mr Laurie Glanfield
Director

Mr Laurie Glanfield is the recently appointed Director General of the Department of Justice and Attorney General having been Director General of the Attorney General’s Department since 1991.  The Department administers and supports the system of courts in NSW in cooperation with the judiciary.  The Department is diverse, incorporating such areas as the recently created NSW Trustee & Guardian, the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the Crown Solicitor’s Office and Corrective Services NSW.

Mr Glanfield has been the Secretary of the Standing Committee of Attorneys General since 1988, is the Chairman of the Criminology Research Council, Deputy President of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Deputy Chair of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre and Deputy Chair of the Australian Institute of Criminology Board.

Peter Harris
Director

Peter Harris is currently responsible for the implementation of the Federal Government's national broadband policy. People first took note of Peter when he was the private secretary to the Prime Minister from 1989 - 1991, after which he led the Industries Branch of the Prime Minister's Department.

After spending two years in Canada in the Office of the Privy Council, Peter returned to Australia to join the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Technology as assistance secretary of Communications and Aviation in 1994. In 2001, Peter was vice-president of Government and International Affairs with the Air New Zealand/Ansett Group.

In 2002, he assumed the role of director of Public Transport in the Victorian Department of Infrastructure. In 2004 the Victorian Government placed him as Secretary of the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. In 2006 he moved to Secretary of Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Malcolm Holmes QC
Director

Malcolm Holmes is a senior counsel based in Sydney (www.11thfloor.com.au) and is an arbitrator member of chambers at 20 Essex Street in London (www.20essexst.com). He is a chartered arbitrator, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and the immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited.

He has acted as an advocate or an arbitrator in numerous arbitrations of most types, both domestic and international, including insurance, general commercial, construction, industrial, sporting and maritime arbitration. He is a member of a number of panels of international arbitrators including the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the panel of international arbitrators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He is a fellow of IAMA and an Adjunct Professor of International Commercial Arbitration at Sydney University and the University of New South Wales.

The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Director

Currently the President of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA), Michael Kirby was until February 2009, a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the nation’s constitutional and appellate court.

His career included practice at the NSW Bar in the field of industrial relations. His first judicial appointment was to the Australian Conciliation & Arbitration Commission. Thereafter, he was appointed, in turn, inaugural Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84), judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-84), President of the NSW Court of Appeal (1984-96), and President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands (1995-6).

Additionally, Michael Kirby has served in important international posts. These have included Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Human Rights in Cambodia; member of the WHO Global Commission on AIDS; member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committed; Chair of the OECD Expert Groups on Privacy and Data Security; Raporteur of the UNODC Judicial Integrity Group; UNDP Independent Chairman of the Constitutional Conference on Multiparty Democracy in Malawi; member of the ILO Commission on Freedom of Association in South Africa; and President of the International Commission of Jurists.

He holds honorary professorships from ten Australian universities; fifteen honorary degrees from universities in Australia and overseas; and is a Fellow of IAMA trained in mediation.

Visit www.michaelkirby.com.au for more details.

Robert Kus
Director

Robert Kus is a Consulting Director in the Australian practice of LECG (www.lecg.com), a global expert services firm. Robert leads the Melbourne office of LECG Forensic Accounting. Robert left PricewaterhouseCoopers on 30 June 2008 after 29 years, 17 as a partner. At the time of leaving PwC, Robert was a senior partner within the Forensic Services Group in the Melbourne office.

Robert’s career with PricewaterhouseCoopers commenced in 1979 when he joined the Corporate Advisory and Restructuring Services Group after completing a Commerce Degree at Deakin University. Robert was invited to establish the Forensic Services Group in 1996 after leading a number of insolvency assignments which required forensic accounting and fraud investigations, and subsequent litigation to recover assets.

As a Forensic Accountant, Robert has gained experience on a broad spectrum of assignments and now provides services including:

• Expert witness reports and testimony
• Expert consulting
• Compensation schemes and financial impact analysis
• Forensic accounting and fraud investigations.

Judith Levine
Director

Judith Levine is legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, an intergovernmental organisation which provides services for the resolution of disputes involving various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties. The PCA’s current caseload encompasses commercial, investment, territorial, treaty, environmental and human rights matters. 

From 2003 to 2008, Judith was an attorney in the international arbitration group in the New York office of White & Case LLP where she represented sovereign states and corporations in disputes in Asia, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, including under the Rules of the ICC, ICSID, the AAA and UNCITRAL.  Those matters related to diverse industries including oil & gas, power, telecommunications, banking, construction and pharmaceuticals.  Judith also advised clients on drafting arbitration clauses for contracts and on public international law.  Judith’s prior experience includes working at the International Court of Justice, serving as an adviser to the Commonwealth Attorney-General and as an associate at the High Court of Australia. 

Judith has lectured at UNSW and for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. From 2006 to 2008, she was a member of Australia’s delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Arbitration. 

Peter McQueen
Director

Peter McQueen provides his services as an arbitrator, mediator and facilitator, in respect of commercial disputes, in particular those relating to transport and trade matters.

He is a qualified arbitrator and an accredited mediator.

Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Director of the Austarlian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and the inaugural Chair of the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission (AMTAC).

He has had over 30 years prior experience practising internationally as a lawyer, specialising in maritime, aviation, trade and transport law and representing transport operators, traders and service providers and their insurers in court, arbitration and mediation proceedings.

During that time Peter has been recognised internationally as a leading lawyer by:

• Best Lawyers - Maritime/Aviation/Trade
• Euromoney's Best of the Best Guide to the World's Leading Shipping & Maritime Lawyers
• Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers
• International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers
• Asia Pacific Legal 500 - Transport

Professor Gabriël Moens
Ph .B, JD (Hons), LL.M, Ph.D, GCEd, FCIArb
Director

Gabriël Moens is Dean and Professor of Law at Murdoch University. Prior to this, he served as Professor and Head of the Graduate School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and Garrick Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland. He is the Editor of International Trade and Business Law Review and other scholarly journals. In 2003 the Prime Minister of Australia awarded him the Centenary Medal for services to education. Professor Moens is a Membre Titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong, the University of New England and the University of Notre Dame (London Law Centre). He is an experienced international commercial arbitrator. He has twice coached the T.C. Beirne School of Law team to win the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. Professor Moens is also a Fellow (FCIArb) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, and is a Fellow and Deputy Secretary General of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). He has co-authored a Commentary to the ACICA Arbitration Rules.

Ian Nosworthy
BA, LLB, LFIAMA, FCIArb, AIPM
Director

Ian Nosworthy is a barrister, arbitrator and mediator from South Australia, who practises nationally and internationally in litigation, arbitration and mediation, particularly in insurance, construction, engineering and commercial disputes.

Ian is a past President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA), of which he is a Life Fellow. He is a Grade One Arbitrator and a Nationally Accredited Mediator, a Fellow and Councillor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a Chartered Arbitrator. He is the Treasurer of the Law Council of Australia’s Business Law Section, and Deputy Chairman of its Construction Law Committee. He has been involved in major litigation, arbitration, mediation and expert determination for more than 25 years, and is the senior partner of Nosworthy Partners in Adelaide.

Ian has represented Australia and IAMA on a number of overseas legal services missions to Malaysia and China, including missions led by Attorneys-General Williams and Ruddock. Ian has written and spoken widely nationally and internationally, and is the author of numerous published papers.

His interests include his role as the Honorary Solicitor of Gymnastics (SA) of which he is a Life Member.

For more information and Ian’s papers see www.nospart.com.au

Robert Regan
Director

Robert Regan is a senior construction law Partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

Robert specialises in construction and engineering dispute resolution law, including litigation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution processes. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer in both Australian and international publications.

His experience in complex disputes extends to matters arising out of PPP and PFI projects and acting for international joint ventures in connection with major infrastructure and engineering projects.

Robert has served on the Executive Team of Corrs Chambers Westgarth for the past eight years.

Ron Salter
Director

Ron Salter has practised for over 40 years as a litigation/dispute resolution lawyer with an emphasis on transport, maritime law and marine insurance. He was a partner at what is now DLA Phillips Fox for 37 years, and remains a consultant to that firm.

He is a past president and honorary life member of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand and is presently chairman of the Association's Arbitration Committee. He is a former member of the Executive Council of Comite Maritime International and is a titulary member of that organisation. He has also served as vice-chairman of the Maritime and Transport Law Committee of the International Bar Association. He is presently a director of ACICA and is also a national councillor and director of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia.

Ron is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Chartered Arbitrator, and is accredited by the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia as a Grade 1 arbitrator. He is also a member of arbitration panels operated by a number of institutions such as the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia. He is also a member of International Maritime Conciliation & Mediation Panel.

Ron regularly acts as arbitrator or mediator, both domestically and internationally, in a variety of commercial disputes, including shipping, aviation, insurance, trade, commodities, partnerships, travel, property, professional liability, and infrastructure projects. He has been listed in four separate Euromoney Guides to the World's Leading Lawyers (shipping and maritime, litigation, insurance and reinsurance, and commercial arbitration), as well as in publications such as Who's Who Legal, the International Who's Who of Shipping Lawyers, the Asia Pacific Legal 500, and Asialaw Leading Lawyers.

Michael Shand QC
Director

Michael Shand QC has practised at the Victorian Bar since 1980 in general commercial law, corporations law, insurance, professional negligence, administrative law and equity and trust matters.

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been accredited as a Chartered Arbitrator.

He served in 2005-6 as the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited and in 2006-7 as the Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council. He is a former director of Barristers’ Chambers Ltd.

He has served as Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese Ballarat since 2002 and Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne since 2007. He is the President of the Episcopal Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Geoff McClellan
Director

Geoff McClellan is a Senior Litigation Partner at Freehills, a major Australian Law Firm. He is widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading commercial litigators. He was Chairman of Freehills for six years.

His experience is with complex disputes across a range of legal areas including securities law, taxation law, insolvency, corporations law, trade practices law, contract law, professional negligence, media law and industrial law. He has experience across a broad range of dispute resolution processes and forums.

Georgia Quick
Director

Georgia Quick is a partner at Blake Dawson and head of the International Arbitration Group. She specialises in dispute resolution and risk management in the areas of energy, construction and major projects.

Georgia worked for the UK's premier construction law firm, Pinsent Masons for 7 years (returning in 2005) practising primarily in international arbitration for energy clients. Georgia has been involved in ICC, LCIA and adhoc international arbitrations involving numerous jurisdictions including England, Europe (Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Russia), Nigeria, India, Philippines, and Hong Kong. She has extensive experience conducting and advising both contractors and principals in respect of FPSOs, power plants, offshore platforms, water treatment plants, material handling facilities, educational and commercial developments, land excavation and reclamation, rolling stock and airport facilities.

Georgia regularly advises in respect of dispute resolution clauses and presents on the subject of international arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution. She is a Fellow and Councillor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia), an accredited mediator - Australian Commercial Dispute Centre (ACDC), member of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA) and Arbitral Women. Georgia is also the Vice President of the NSW branch of AMPLA, the Energy & Resources Lawyers Association.

Khory McCormick
Director

Khory is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Committee member of AFIA, Law Society Approved Mediator and Arbitrator and Supreme Court approved Mediator.

Khory’s opinion is sought by leading corporate and public sector participants on diverse strategic and operational issues. For over 20 years he has been at the forefront of cutting edge commercial, public sector, resources and major projects, industrial law and media litigation and advisory work. Khory has advised all levels of government on strategic issues and significant disputation matters, private sector participants on the impact on rights and contractual obligations.

He is an Adjunct Professor at both University of Queensland and Griffith University. He is also currently Chair of Green Cross Australia and National Board Member of Minter Ellison.